Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Final

Rank
Lane
Name
Nationality
Time
Notes
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8
Dmitriy Balandin
Kazakhstan
2:07.46
NR
-
3
Josh Prenot
United States
2:07.53
-
-
7
Anton Chupkov
Russia
2:07.70
NR
4
5
Andrew Willis
Great Britain
2:07.78
-
5
6
Yasuhiro Koseki
Japan
2:07.80
-
6
4
Ippei Watanabe
Japan
2:07.87
-
7
1
Marco Koch
Germany
2:08.00
-
8
2
Kevin Cordes
United States
2:08.34
-

Question: In the 2016 Summer Olympics -- Men's 200 metre breastroke, was the race close?
Answer: U.S. breaststroker, Josh Prenot, nearly charged to the front at the final stretch, before fading to a runner-up finish in 2:07.53, a 0.07 of a second behind the Kazakh.